is there any way to make debian 12.7 open new tabs instead of new windows each time I download something with firefox? (lemmy.ml)

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each time I save a file with firefox and click on 'display progress of ongoing downloads' on the top right part of the browser and click to open the containing directory, debian opens the directory, but in a new tunar window, not in a new tab in a pre existing thunar window.

It's tiring working with so many open windows. Better one window and several tabs.

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=244076

Alternately:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16993

xfconf-query -c thunar -p /misc-open-new-window-as-tab -s true && thunar ~/Downloads

[-] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is about Firefox not debian

Search on how to do this in Firefox, maybe in the about:config

Also note that Debian ships Firefox ESR which lacks behind on features, you might want to add mozillas official repo for the up to date browser

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I would say it's about thunar configuration or URL handler configs more than anything. The other comment has what looks like a good solution for x11, no idea if it works on Wayland though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Firefox won't be able to do this without Thunar supporting it, but someone else already posted that Thunar does support it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

This could be a Thunar setting or a xfwm4 setting in addition to being a FF setting.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Yes

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/preferences#behavior_preferences

Tabs and Windows

Open new thunar instances as tabs

Whenever you launch thunar while an existing thunar window is already open, a new tab will be added to the existing thunar window instead of opening a new window.

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